1:21 This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,
2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of 2 Eli the priest.
11:4 When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) 4 and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. 5
19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 7 and they ran away from him.
19:23 So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. The Spirit of God came upon him as well, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. 8 David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.
25:1 Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran. 12
25:9 So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.
25:12 So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David 13 all these things.
25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.
25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”
went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.
29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return 16 to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. 17
1 tc Several medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”
3 tn Heb “men.”
4 tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”
5 tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”
6 tn Heb “to bless him.”
7 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
8 tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”
9 tn Heb “to search [for].”
10 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
11 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).
12 tc The LXX reads “Maon” here instead of “Paran,” perhaps because the following account of Nabal is said to be in Maon (v. 2). This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT). The MT, however, reads “Paran,” a location which would parallel this portion of David’s life with that of the nation Israel which also spent time in Paran (Num 10:12). Also, the desert of Paran was on the southern border of Judah’s territory and would be the most isolated location for hiding from Saul.
13 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “going at her feet.”
15 tn Heb “What in my hand [is] evil?”
16 tc Heb “to go in the morning to return.” With the exception of Origen and the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek tradition lacks the phrase “in the morning.” The Syriac Peshitta also omits it.
17 tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.